What is the difference between a street, avenue, road and boulevard?

What is the difference between road, street, avenue, Boulevard?

  • What is the idea behind naming streets such as Boulevard, Parkway, Street, road, lane? How it is decided and who decides it?

  • Answer:

    I only know that in the Roman times (romans invented the terms road and street) a street is a straight path and a road is a path with bends and turns boulevard = street lined by trees parkway = highway passing through open spaces lane = a narrow road Ultimately, these definitions are used to name places

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the sumthin called the internet. go to google look it up . gosh people are so lazy theses days

Jonathan T

No difference anymore. They used to more fully describe the makeup of the street. Lane was narrow or short, Parkway was wide, usually divided with trees in the middle, etc...

Bors

I think people would get bored if it was Green Street. So they spice it up with boulevard, road,street, avenue, etc.

CheerChic1022

It is decided by the person naming the route!

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